Jamal Bryant

As the nation moved from shock to mourning the six women and three men killed by a white gunman at a black Charleston, S.C., church late Wednesday, chuchgoers gathered across the country Thursday to pray for the victims and for the 21-year-old man arrested for the shootings. But they — along with leaders of other faiths as well as President Barack Obama — also began to process what the tragedy means for the safety of their parishioners and their communities. "I think pastors everywhere are going to be on high alert this Sunday and for the next couple of weeks," said the Rev. Jamal Bryant, pastor of Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, an African Methodist Episcopal...

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